cheap
cheap is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.
- 2.Of comparatively small value; common; mean. You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]
- 3.Cheaply. Milton.
- 4.To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- admission
- and
- bargain
- bon
- buy
- catchpenny
- charge
- cheapness
- come
- cost
- costless
- deadhead
- depreciation
- dirt
- dog
- down
- drug
- expense
- expenseless
- fall
- for
- free
- good
- gratis
- gratuitous
- gratuity
- have
- honorary
- inexpensive
- labor
- little
- love
- low
- market
- mere
- moderate
- money
- nasty
- nominal
- not
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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